"In order to make you understand, I'll have to go back," said the doctor musingly, "a long way back.

Some of the story you already know, but now I want you to know it all.

But first--when you found me in that hospital, a useless bit of human wreckage, and forced me back into life with your scorn of a coward and your cutting words, what did you think?
What did I tell you?
It is all hazy to me." "You told me very little.

It was plain enough.

You had come a bad cropper.